Outside the Beltway

Don’t believe your lying eyes.

The project that has been on-again, off-again since 2008 seems to be off for good.

Even incredibly abnormal Presidents are Presidents.

The Commonwealth is much more diverse than national election returns might indicate.

A typical case of American blind justice.

Vague reporting makes it hard to know whether the latest scandal is scandalous.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

Retired generals are no longer in the military.

Brought to you by the son of Moon.

Prosecutors want rioters to pay for it.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

We need what we aren’t going to get.

The country is in peril.

My contribution to a continuing debate.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

Could this be the straw that broke the camel’s back?

Separate investigations are merging, with a criminal component being added.

New polling provides useful insights into the problem.

The reaction to the pandemic has long since been about much more than the pandemic.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

His partner in crime wrote it all down.

A laser focus on the pandemic and economic insecurity has him in good shape at the traditional check-in point.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

Four administrations and two decades later, it’s about to be over.

It’s seemingly just a matter of time before recreational use is allowed throughout the United States.

Stenography is not journalism.

Stoking a bizarre fantasy that will not die.

A quirk in our system combined with shrewd gamesmanship will give them unprecedented power.

Refuseniks are far more confident than those already vaccinated.

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

Key posts across the government remain unfilled.

Overruling every case President Trump was involved in is getting silly.

And, really, all of this current wave of election legislation.

A Trump-era policy designed to screw over blue states may actually be a good one.

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

The media became the story but the President was the news.

We tend to focus on the wrong qualities in our early assessments.

The downfall of Andrew Cuomo shines a light on toxic workplaces and governance styles.

While progressives in the party are often frustrated with the West Virginia Senator, he is demonstrating yet again that he’s no Republican.

Multiple indicators point to a decline in the representativeness of the American system.

What at first blush appears a case of hypocrisy and cancel culture is a violation of professional ethics.

The seemingly unremarkable event hadn’t happened in four decades.

The U.S. Senators and a U.S. Representative beg to differ.

The lack of common understandings and shared assumptions makes political conversations challenging.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

A mass shooting in Atlanta draws attention to a problem of which I was only tangentially aware.

An explanation to a question you likely weren’t asking.

Is humility the wrong play here?